Miyako Arishima

Born in 1992, in Kumamoto (Japan).
She began her music education at the age of two, learning the rudiments of piano with Ms. Yukie Ieki. Afterwards she attended Toho Gakuen Music High School in Tokyo, in Prof. Keiko Takeuchi’s piano class. In 2010 she moved to Poland to study at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz with Prof. Katarzyna Popowa- Zydron. She graduated with the degree of bachelor and master with honors, in 2013 and 2016. Then she received the scholarship of Polish Government and attended a postgraduate artistic training program at the same academy.

Miyako has been awarded on a number of piano competitions and festivals, such as the International Chopin Piano Competition in ASIA (2004 - 2006, 2010), the ‘Youngsters Interpret Chopin’ Polish Piano Festival in Konin (Honourable mention, 2011), the Kirishima Music Festival (Festival award, 2013), the Darmstadt International Chopin Piano Competition (5th Prize, 2013). After the participation to The 17th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2015 she got the spacial prize from the Mayor of Bydgoszcz.
She gives recitals and concerts in Japan, Poland, Denmark, and Germany.
She has played with orchestras; the Kyusyu Symphony Orchestra, the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra and the Cracow Chamber Orchestra, Ignacy Jan Paderewski State Philharmonic Orchestra among others.

In January 2016 she joined a contemporary music ensemble 'Sort Hul Ensemble'. As a part of this project, Miyako had a privilege to premiere live and record pieces written especially for this ensemble by young composers from Poland.